Equipment Report

Harris Waste Management Group Inc., Peachtree City, Ga., has installed a 1,000-ton, pre-compression shear at Induspa SA near Rouen, France. The customer is a subsidiary of SA Brion Recycling, a company that has owned a total of four Harris shears and two large balers during a 20-year period.

The machine, a BSH-22-1023B, is the first of the new generation "B" series shears to be sold in Europe. According to the company, it features the well-established Harris tuck-and-fold pre-compression box, new energy-efficient hydraulics, touch-screen-based control, fault diagnosis and a performance monitoring system.

According to the Harris Web site, other features include a wide-open charge hopper for faster loading of irregular scrap, an easy-to-service power pack and Teflon-protected pistons for minimum friction and longer trouble-free operation.

The "flooded suction" power unit is designed to keep pumps fully primed before starting, reducing wear to a minimum. Harris also uses Allen-Bradley hardware and software to control and monitor the machine.

"Our new user-friendly touch-screen controls are being introduced across our entire range," remarks Jim Jagou, VP of international sales for Harris. "The benefits to the customer are that the machine functions can be very easily monitored via the pictorial display, and the machine can be preprogrammed to customer requirements during commissioning by our engineer. Also, by using a modem link we can carry out fault-finding from our service facilities in either the U.K. or the U.S," he says.

Commercial Metals Co. has purchased a 96-inch-wide Metal Finder System from Wendt Corp., Tonawanda, N.Y., and installed it as part of a turnkey system at its Lexington, S.C., facility. The system includes a batch feeder, trommel, separator and additional material handling conveyors.

The Metal Finder, which typically processes post-eddy current residue as a stainless steel separator, detects metal by conductivity and uses bursts of compressed air to recover all types of metal from the flow.

Wendt makes the separators at its Tonawanda facility using technology developed by Separation Systems Engineering GmbH (SSE) of Wedel, Germany. Wendt and SSE have sold more than 75 separators worldwide to the scrap recycling industry.

CMC-Lexington’s Metal Finder System will be installed in September.

"CMC-Lexington is always looking for better ways to process our material to maximize our metal units recovered," says Stan Davis of CMC. "We are excited about the revenue that this machinery will produce for our company."

Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), San Diego, has acquired radiation detection equipment maker Exploranium G.S. Ltd., Mississauga, Ont., Canada. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Exploranium will continue to operate from Mississauga as a division of SAIC’s Transportation and Security Technology Group.

Employee-owned SAIC is one of the nation’s largest research and engineering companies providing information and security technology to the homeland security, energy, environment, aerospace, telecommunications, health care, transportation and logistics industries.

Sierra International Machinery, Bakersfield, Calif., and IPS Balers, Baxley, Ga., have recently formed a partnership whereby Sierra will be the exclusive distributor of IPS balers to the nonferrous market.

According to a news release issued by Sierra, John Sacco, president of Sierra International Machinery, and Sidney and Forrest Wildes, owners of IPS Balers, are excited about the possibilities created from this partnership, which is described as a "natural," because both companies sell high-quality, competitively priced machinery that boasts high levels of efficient production.

The partnership enables Sierra to offer a more complete line of products to the scrap processing market, while IPS will have an established sales force to promote and sell its machines, according to the Sierra release.

Sierra will also service the IPS balers it sells. Those who recognize Sierra’s high level of service and of machinery knowledge will see the service component as an asset, the release states.

Those interested in learning more about IPS nonferrous baling applications should contact their Sierra sales representative or call (800) 343-8503.